Tena, 26, who happens to have known Pattinson since their late teenage years, originally met him on a photo shoot for emerging British actors. Coincidentally, like R-Patz, she herself has a bit of experience with the fantasy genre, scoring a role in 2007’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and all subsequent Harry Potter flicks. But, in a recent interview, she also talked Twilight and revealed some insider info about her famous vampire-playing friend.

“We had this summer of being really close,” Tena said about Robert Pattinson. “Then I remember Robert taking me out a few months later. He was like, ‘I’m just saying goodbye because I’m going to America for a few months to do some vampire thing.’ I said, ‘Cool, I’ll see you when you get back.'”

Little did either Tena or Pattinson know that the so-called “some vampire thing” would really be box office gold, kick-starting quite the acting career for Robert Pattinson and his off-screen and on-screen Twilight love interest, Kristen Stewart.

Well, hindsight is always 20-20. And now with several Twilight movies behind him, countless Twi-hard fans the world over, considerable bank, and the wildly anticipated Breaking Dawn premiÃ¨re ahead in November, Edward CullenÂ—ahem, Robert PattinsonÂ—is no doubt singing a very different tune about his “vampire thing.”